In addition to setting up the basic services for your learnstream, you should consider reserving your username for other tools and services you may add to your learnstream in the future.  This helps keep a consistent name across services (if possible).  You don’t need to use any of these services at this time in order to sign up.  If you plan on creating and maintaining a learnstream, you’ll want many of the services below.

Check your preferred user name for multiple services at once on either name.chk or knowem.  Not all services are listed here so you will have to visit the services separately. 

Here are some suggested tools and services:

Keeping Track

To keep track of usernames of the services and tools you use in your learnstream - create a spreadsheet that lists each tool/service and your username.  Also include anything else that is relevant for you about that service or tool.

What Else?

What other tools and services do you use in your learnstream?

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Interesting Finds from Twitter during the past week:

Dealing with Complexity

@ideahive RT @dcarli: Video Mark Schenk frm Anecdote's Pecha Kucha describing complexity using Cynefin framework www.bit.ly/3L4jt1 HT @ToughLoveforX

@VenessaMiemis a metathinking manifesto http://bit.ly/2jMotZ

@hjarche By the time there is a case study in your specific industry, it's going to be way too late for you to catch up http://is.gd/4VvVe

Connecting

@KoreenOlbrish MUST READ: RT @glassbeed: On Twitter and in the Workplace, It's Power to the Connectors: http://bit.ly/16hZ5N

@stoweboyd The Rise Of Networks, The End Of Process http://bit.ly/1kdFkx More social business theory

@Hagerbro 5 Impressive Real-Life #Google #Wave Use Cases http://bit.ly/1XQeyz

What did I miss that you found interesting this week on Twitter?  Have a great week.

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Ten Trends Rmc

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There are many services that you could include in your learnstream.  Here’s a post to get you started on some of the basic services to consider for your learnstream.  I listed a couple of options for most services (my primary is listed 1^st)).

Note:  Try selecting a consistent name across services, if possible. You can check your username for many social services at once by using name.chk or knowem.

Basic Learnstream Services

If you’re not sure where to begin, here’s a suggested order:

1. LinkedIn     
2. Delicious
3. Google Reader
4. Twitter
5. Bit.ly
6. Flickr
7. Facebook
8. Posterous

What did I miss?  Was this too much?  If you were helping someone set up their learnstream, what else would you include to get them started?  

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What To Read Before You Tell People That "Participants Loved Your Training”…

@guywwallace  - Level 1-2-3-4(-5) fans: Zero correlation between Satisfaction and Learning! http://tiny.cc/uKS0j - from January 2009

To Compare Microsharing Tools…

@Pistachio Enterprise 2.0 "Twitter" Microsharing white paper I wrote with @marciamarcia. (link will open a .pdf) http://bit.ly/3Nq7Zw #L2009

Thoughts About the Future of the Web…

@louisgray New Blog Post: Search: Getting Less Useful Due to Massive Info Growth, and the Flow? http://bit.ly/2ZsQJB #defragcon #defrag @stoweboyd

What To Do…

@moehlert RT @valdiskrebs : Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs -- http://bit.ly/cHaIX

@hjarche 100+ ways to use social media for learning http://is.gd/4QQOd via @c4lpt

What Not To Do…

@hebrandbuilder 10 Ways To Kill a Community (in case you haven't seen this yet) http://bit.ly/4m4RPH

I Never Knew…

@valdiskrebs RT @marigo RT @MariSmith If you paste ANY bit.ly link into your browser and add + on the end, you can see stats (via @MackCollier)

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Lifestreams are about your life and learnstreams are about the learning in your life.

A lifestream is a chronological view of your online (and even offline) activities that you want to share online.  This includes a wide range of activities (e.g., shopping, concerts, sporting events, observations, photos, etc).  You can include any activity that is a part of your life…it’s your life!

A learnstream is similar to a lifestream except that it focuses on activities that are related to a topic or topics that you want to share for your learning and the learning of others. You can focus on a particular topic (e.g., photography, web design) or you can take a broader approach to include many items that you’re learning about…it’s your learning!

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Learning Business Through Scenarios

@Quinnovator RT @eLearnMag: Schank describes the scenarios of new story-based business course he developed, launch in Jan.: http://tinyurl.com/ybl3u8a

Good Visual Learning Example

@JaneBozarth How to use an apostrophe http://apostrophe.me/

Passion for What You do

@DougH: A couple days old, but @mitchjoel wrote a keeper on "Loving What You Do"  http://bit.ly/1e7Jf3 Do you?

Learning Mashups

@marciamarcia: More on the future of mashups and learning: http://sn.im/snowflake-effect Thx2 @wwwayne #e2conf #lrnchat

Mind

@LollyDaskal: What other people think is only what other people think.

Streams

RT @steverubel: Three Ways to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Streams http://ff.im/-aVSID

Social Media

RT @chrisbrogan: RT @ShannonPaul: Social media needs fewer rockstars, and more rockstar ideas http://tinyurl.com/yf85en2  by @mackcollier

@ hjarche My response http://is.gd/4Np6U to the LCB Big Question http://is.gd/4Np6h value of social media for learning

Posterous

RT @posterous: Posterous: The Copy-and-Post Revolution in (Micro) Blogging. http://bit.ly/4xRs2K (via @oreilly, @netgarden)

@GuyKawasaki: How Posterous powers "storystreaming" at the Pioneer Press http://om.ly/ZmGS (Disclosure: I am an investor in Posterous)

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Weird Myths In Business presentations from Steve Greene.

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